The structure of the membrane active toxin, colicin, recently published by M. Wiener, D. Freymann, P. Ghosh, and R. M. Stroud (Nature 1997, 385, p. 461) offers insight into its mechanism of action (photo courtesy of M. Wiener).
Old series (1993-2017)
Editors: William L. Duax, Judith Flippen-Anderson

Contents of issue

Letter from the President

A Critical Time for Databases
Edward N. Baker
 

Letter to the Editor

JACS policy
Allen J. Bard
 

Letter to the Editor

The Loch Ness monster
Malcolm McMahon
 

Letter to the Editor

Diffractometer wanted
B. T. IbragimovB. TashkodjaevV. Sabirov
 

Letter to the Editor

Goniometer for sale
G.J. van Hummel
 

Letter to the Editor

Newsletter contents online
Howard Flack
 

Letter to the Editor

Platinum crucibles
 

Editorial

Editorial
William L. Duax
 

IUCr Congress

International Union of Crystallography XVII Congress and General Assembly
Davide ViterboConnie Chidester, Simon Bott, I. D. Brown, K. Schwarz, A. Authier, Norio Kato, Hugo Steinfink, J. W. Steeds, G. Chapuis, A. M. Glazer, R. J. Hill, Peter Stephens, Michael Thackeray, R. Boese, G. Gilli, Frank Herbstein, J. Harada, I. Robinson, D. L. Dorset, M. CaffreyF. Lahoz
 

Meeting report

X-ray Centennial in Moscow
Svetlana ZheludevaValery Nosik
 

Meeting report

Macromolecules in India
M. Vijayan
 

Meeting report

Electron Diffraction and Imaging at Surfaces
M. A. Van Hove
 

Meeting report

Rational Drug Design
William L. Duax
 

Meeting report

Hodgkin Retrospective
Eleanor Dodson
 

Meeting report

Synchrotron Small-Angle Scattering in Brazil
Jose Teixeira
 

Awards and prizes

Recent honours
 

Notice

ICDD scholarships
Ronald Jenkins
 

Notice

Calling all microscopists
J. A. Eades
 

Notice

D. M. Blow Poster Prize
 

Notice

Prize papers in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
 

Notice

Chemical Design and IDBS Collaboration
 

Miscellany

What's Hot
 

Miscellany

Advances in Laue diffraction
 

Obituary

M. H. Mueller (1918-1996)
S. C. AbrahamsR. JenkinsR. A. Young
 

Obituary

Sir Gordon Cox (1906-1996)
Durward Cruickshank
 

Obituary

Peter Salt (1935-1996)
 

Obituary

Stanley H. Simonsen (1918-1996)
Ray DavisHugo Steinfink
 

Obituary

Arthur James Cochran Wilson (1914-1995)
Ian Langford
 

Obituary

Edward Norman (Ted) Maslen (1935-1997)
Syd HallAllan White
 

Obituary

Boris Konstantinovich Vainshtein (1921-1996)
Emil HarutyunyanWilliam Melik-Adamyan